Google does ads?
Honestly, it has been a very long while since I've seen ads. Adblock aside, my phone is so old that any significant ads effectively causes a crash, total non-responsive phone. So I still don't see them.
Google is banning Flash from its display ads
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Re: Google is banning Flash from its display ads
#42I suppose this means dropping it altogether (like from Chrome) can't be too far away. My only regret with that would be that we use flash as a way to allow one-button copy to the clipboard (using this http://zeroclipboard.org/ ). We had tried non-flash solutions, but none of them worked. This sounds like it might work https://clipboardjs.com/ , so I guess I'll be adding a backlog item to look at it.
re: dropping [flash] from Chrome -
NOOOOO this is what Chrome is for! The only flash I have is the built in to chrome flash.
Re: Google is banning Flash from its display ads
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#45I've blocked Google ads for so long I didn't realize they had been allowing Flash ads.
The only Google ads that I still get is on the Youtube app on Android... which is one reason why I don't like to install any Google binaries on my computers...
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#47I've blocked Google ads for so long I didn't realize they had been allowing Flash ads.
Which ad blocker do you use on mobile?
For Google ads specifically? https://contributor.google.com/
Re: Google is banning Flash from its display ads
#48One thing HTML5 lacks is the ability to combine all assets into one file. This makes Flash particularly handy for advertisements. Safari almost got there with its .Webarchive format, and Mozilla experimented with a file format but it didn't get anywhere.
WARC, maybe?
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#49Silly question: Do people not use Click-to-play? I thought it was enabled in browsers by default now, or at least Firefox.
Back when I still have Flash installed, I turned off Firefox's Click-to-play because I was unable figure out how to have it on without something like a speech balloon's popping up in the upper left corner of the window every time I visit a page that wants to use Flash.
I have a low tolerance for distractions and for anything that resembles nagging.
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
I do (even as a sometime Flash developer), but unfortunately it's not always practical. There are plenty of sites, including Vimeo embeds and Vine, which cover the SWF with an HTML element - making it impossible to right-click to play the SWF. So you end up disabling click-to-play just to see the video you wanted.
Firefox has had a top-of-the-page notification for click-to-play for a long time, making this a non-issue.
Chrome has an icon for this in the address bar. The only problem with this solution is you lose control of which elements you want to allow.